Rowland Biffen

Sir Rowland Henry Biffen (28 May 1874 in Cheltenham - 12 July 1949)[1] was a British botanist and geneticist. He was the first professor of agricultural botany at Cambridge in 1908. He won the Royal Society's Darwin Medal in 1920. Biffen was the first director of the John Innes Centre's Plant Breeding Institute, and was an early proponent of using genetics to improve crop plants.[2] Early in his career he traveled to the Americas to study rubber, but his primary research plant was wheat. He developed a variety called Yeomen wheat.[3]

References

1. ^ "List of Fellows of the Royal Society 1660 – 2007 A - J: A complete listing of all Fellows and Foreign Members since the foundation of the Society" (PDF). The Royal Society. July 2007. http://www.royalsoc.ac.uk/downloaddoc.asp?id=4275. Retrieved 2007-06-23.
2. ^ Parascandola, M (April 1, 2004). "Book Review Plants, patients and the historian: (re)membering in the age of genetic engineering". Medical History (Wellcome Institute of the History of Medicine) 48 (2).
3. ^ Engledow, FL (November 1950). "Rowland Harry Biffen. 1874-1949". Obituary Notices of Fellows of the Royal Society (The Royal Society) 7 (19): 9–25. doi:10.1098/rsbm.1950.0002.

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